List of organic reactions

0-9

1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition

2,3-Wittig rearrangement

A

Abramovitch–Shapiro tryptamine synthesis

Acetalisation

Acetoacetic ester condensation

Achmatowicz reaction

Acylation

Acyloin condensation

Adams catalyst

Adams decarboxylation

Adkins catalyst

Adkins–Peterson reaction

Akabori amino acid reaction

Alcohol oxidation

Alder ene reaction

Alder–Stein rules

Aldol addition

Aldol condensation

Algar–Flynn–Oyamada reaction

Alkylimino-de-oxo-bisubstitution

Alkyne trimerisation

Alkyne zipper reaction

Allan–Robinson reaction

Allylic rearrangement

Amadori rearrangement

Amine alkylation

Angeli–Rimini reaction

Andrussov oxidation

Appel reaction

Arbuzov reaction, Arbusow reaction

Arens–van Dorp synthesis, Isler modification

Aromatic nitration

Arndt–Eistert synthesis

Auwers synthesis

Azo coupling

B

Baeyer–Drewson indigo synthesis

Baeyer–Villiger oxidation

Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement

Bakeland process (Bakelite)

Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement, Baker–Venkataraman transformation

Bally–Scholl synthesis

Balz–Schiemann reaction

Bamberger rearrangement

Bamberger triazine synthesis

Bamford–Stevens reaction

Barbier–Wieland degradation

Bardhan–Sengupta phenanthrene synthesis*Barfoed's test

Bargellini reaction

Bartoli indole synthesis, Bartoli reaction

Barton reaction

Barton–Kellogg reaction

Barton–McCombie reaction, Barton deoxygenation

Barton Zard Synthesis

Barton vinyl iodine procedure

Baudisch reaction

Bayer test

Baylis–Hillman reaction

Bechamp reaction

Bechamp reduction

Beckmann fragmentation

Beckmann rearrangement

Bellus–Claisen rearrangement

Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction

Benary reaction

Benedict's reagent

Benkeser reaction

Benzidine rearrangement

Benzilic acid rearrangement

Benzoin condensation

Bergman cyclization

Bergmann azlactone peptide synthesis

Bergmann degradation

Bergmann–Zervas carbobenzoxy method

Bernthsen acridine synthesis

Bestmann's reagent

Betti reaction

Biginelli pyrimidine synthesis

Biginelli reaction

Bingel reaction

Birch reduction

Bischler–Möhlau indole synthesis

Bischler–Napieralski reaction

Biuret test

Blaise ketone synthesis

Blaise reaction

Blanc reaction

Blanc chloromethylation

Bodroux reaction

Bodroux–Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis

Bogert–Cook synthesis

Bohn–Schmidt reaction

Boord olefin synthesis

Borodin reaction

Borsche–Drechsel cyclization

Bosch–Meiser urea process

Bosch reaction

Bouveault aldehyde synthesis

Bouveault–Blanc reduction

Boyland–Sims oxidation

Boyer Reaction

Bredt's rule

Brown hydroboration

Bucherer carbazole synthesis

Bucherer reaction

Bucherer–Bergs reaction

Buchner ring enlargement

Büchner–Curtius–Schlotterbeck reaction

Buchwald–Hartwig amination

Bunnett reaction

C

Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling

Camps quinoline synthesis

Cannizzaro reaction

Carbohydrate acetalisation

Carbonyl reduction

Carbonylation

Carbylamine reaction

Carroll reaction

Castro–Stephens coupling

Catalytic reforming

Catellani Reaction

CBS reduction

Chan–Lam coupling

Chapman rearrangement

Cheletropic reaction

Chichibabin pyridine synthesis

Chichibabin reaction

Chiral pool synthesis

Chugaev elimination

Ciamician–Dennstedt rearrangement

Claisen condensation

Claisen rearrangement

Claisen–Schmidt condensation

Clemmensen reduction

Collins reagent

Combes quinoline synthesis

Conia reaction

Conrad–Limpach synthesis

Corey–Gilman–Ganem oxidation

Cook–Heilbron thiazole synthesis

Cope elimination

Cope rearrangement

Corey reagent

Corey–Bakshi–Shibata reduction

Corey–Fuchs reaction

Corey–Kim oxidation

Corey–Posner, Whitesides–House reaction

Corey–Winter olefin synthesis

Corey–Winter reaction

Coupling reaction

Craig method

Cram's rule of asymmetric induction

Creighton process

Criegee reaction

Criegee rearrangement

Cross metathesis

Crum Brown–Gibson rule

Curtius degradation

Curtius rearrangement, Curtius reaction

Cyanohydrin reaction

D

Dakin reaction (aka Dakin oxidation)

Dakin–West reaction

Danheiser annulation

Danheiser benzannulation

Darapsky degradation

Darzens condensation, Darzens–Claisen reaction, Glycidic ester condensation

Darzens halogenation

Darzens synthesis of unsaturated ketones

Darzens tetralin synthesis

Dehydration reaction

Dehydrogenation

Delepine reaction

Demjanov rearrangement

Demjanow desamination

Dess–Martin oxidation

Diazoalkane 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

Diazotisation

DIBAL-H selective reduction

Dieckmann condensation

Dieckmann reaction

Diels–Alder reaction

Diels–Reese reaction

Dienol benzene rearrangement

Dienone phenol rearrangement

Dimroth rearrangement

Di-pi-methane rearrangement

Directed ortho metalation

Doebner modification

Doebner reaction

Doebner–Miller reaction, Beyer method for quinolines

Doering–LaFlamme carbon chain extension

Dötz reaction

Dowd–Beckwith ring expansion reaction

Duff reaction

Dutt–Wormall reaction

Dyotropic reaction

E

E1cB elimination reaction

Eder reaction

Edman degradation

Eglinton reaction

Ehrlich–Sachs reaction

Einhorn variant

Einhorn–Brunner reaction

Elbs persulfate oxidation

Elbs reaction

Electrochemical fluorination

Electrocyclic reaction

Electrophilic halogenation

Electrophilic amination

Elimination reaction

Emde degradation

Emmert reaction

Ene reaction

Enyne metathesis

Epoxidation

Erlenmeyer synthesis, Azlactone synthesis

Erlenmeyer–Plöchl azlactone and amino-acid synthesis

Eschenmoser fragmentation

Eschweiler–Clarke reaction

Ester pyrolysis

Ether cleavage

Étard reaction

Evans aldol

F

Favorskii reaction

Favorskii rearrangement

Favorskii–Babayan synthesis

Fehling test

Feist–Benary synthesis

Fenton reaction

Ferrario reaction

Ferrier carbocyclization

Ferrier rearrangement

Finkelstein reaction

Fischer indole synthesis

Fischer oxazole synthesis

Fischer peptide synthesis

Fischer phenylhydrazine and oxazone reaction

Fischer glycosidation

Fischer–Hepp rearrangement

Fischer–Speier esterification

Fischer Tropsch synthesis

Fleming–Tamao oxidation

Flood reaction

Folin–Ciocalteu reagent

Formox process

Forster reaction

Forster–Decker method

Fowler process

Franchimont reaction

Frankland synthesis

Frankland–Duppa reaction

Free radical halogenation

Freund reaction

Friedel–Crafts acylation

Friedel–Crafts alkylation

Friedländer synthesis

Fries rearrangement

Fritsch–Buttenberg–Wiechell rearrangement

Fujimoto–Belleau reaction

Fukuyama coupling

Fukuyama indole synthesis

Fukuyama reduction

G

Gabriel ethylenimine method

Gabriel synthesis

Gabriel–Colman rearrangement, Gabriel isoquinoline synthesis

Gallagher–Hollander degradation

Gassman indole synthesis

Gastaldi synthesis

Gattermann aldehyde synthesis

Gattermann Koch reaction

Gattermann reaction

Geminal halide hydrolysis

Gewald reaction

Gibbs phthalic anhydride process

Gilman reagent

Glaser coupling

Glycol cleavage

Gomberg–Bachmann reaction

Gomberg–Bachmann–Hey reaction

Gomberg free-radical reaction

Gould–Jacobs reaction

Graebe–Ullmann synthesis

Grignard degradation

Grignard reaction

Grob fragmentation

Grubbs' catalyst in Olefin metathesis

Grundmann aldehyde synthesis

Gryszkiewicz–Trochimowski and McCombie method

Guareschi–Thorpe condensation

Guerbet reaction

Gutknecht pyrazine synthesis

H

Haber–Weiss reaction

Haller–Bauer reaction

Haloform reaction

Halogen addition reaction

Halohydrin formation reaction

Hammett equation

Hammick reaction

Hammond principle or Hammond postulate

Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis

Hantzsch dihydropyridine synthesis, Hantzsch pyridine synthesis

Hantzsch pyridine synthesis, Gattermann–Skita synthesis, Guareschi–Thorpe condensation, Knoevenagel–Fries modification

Hantzsch–Collidin synthesis

Harries ozonide reaction

Haworth methylation

Haworth Phenanthrene synthesis

Haworth reaction

Hay coupling

Hayashi rearrangement

Heck reaction

Helferich method

Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation

Hemetsberger indole synthesis

Hemetsberger–Knittel synthesis

Henkel reaction, Raecke process, Henkel process

Henry reaction, Kamlet reaction

Herz reaction, Herz compounds

Herzig–Meyer alkimide group determination

Heumann indigo synthesis

Hydration reaction

Hydroamination

Hydrodesulfurization

Hydrogenolysis

Hydrosilylation

Hinsberg indole synthesis

Hinsberg oxindole synthesis

Hinsberg reaction

Hinsberg separation

Hinsberg sulfone synthesis

Hoch–Campbell ethylenimine synthesis

Hock rearrangement

Hofmann degradation, Exhaustive methylation

Hofmann elimination

Hofmann Isonitrile synthesis, Carbylamine reaction

Hofmann produkt

Hofmann rearrangement

Hofmann–Löffler reaction, Löffler–Freytag reaction, Hofmann–Löffler–Freytag reaction

Hofmann–Martius rearrangement

Hofmann's rule

Hofmann–Sand reaction

Homo rearrangement of steroids

Hooker reaction

Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction

Hoesch reaction

Hosomi–Sakurai reaction

Houben–Fischer synthesis

Hudlicky fluorination

Huisgen cycloaddition

Hunsdiecker reaction

Hydroboration

Hydrocarbon cracking

Hydrohalogenation

I

Indium mediated allylation

Ing–Manske procedure

Ipso substitution

Ishikawa reagent

trans-cis isomerism

Ivanov reagent, Ivanov reaction

J

Jacobsen epoxidation

Jacobsen rearrangement

Janovsky reaction

Japp–Klingemann reaction

Japp–Maitland condensation

Johnson–Claisen rearrangement

Jones oxidation

Jordan–Ullmann–Goldberg synthesis

Julia olefination

Julia–Lythgoe olefination

K

Kabachnik–Fields reaction

Kharasch–Sosnovsky reaction

Ketone halogenation

Kiliani–Fischer synthesis

Kindler reaction

Kishner cyclopropane synthesis

Knoevenagel condensation

Knorr pyrazole synthesis

Knorr pyrrole synthesis

Knorr quinoline synthesis

Koch–Haaf reaction

Kochi reaction

Koenigs–Knorr reaction

Kolbe electrolysis

Kolbe–Schmitt reaction

König method

Kornblum oxidation

Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement

Kostanecki acylation

Kowalski ester homologation

Krapcho decarboxylation

Kröhnke aldehyde synthesis

Kröhnke oxidation

Kröhnke pyridine synthesis

Kucherov reaction

Kuhn–Winterstein reaction

Kulinkovich reaction

Kumada coupling

L

Larock indole synthesis

Lebedev process

Lehmstedt–Tanasescu reaction

Leimgruber–Batcho indole synthesis

Letts nitrile synthesis

Leuckart reaction

Leuckart thiophenol reaction

Leuckart–Wallach reaction

Leuckart amide synthesis

Levinstein process

Ley oxidation

Lieben iodoform reaction, Haloform reaction

Liebeskind–Srogl coupling

Liebig melamine synthesis

Lindlar catalyst

Lobry–de Bruyn–van Ekenstein transformation

Lossen rearrangement

Lucas' reagent

Luche reduction

M

Maillard reaction

Madelung synthesis

Malaprade reaction, Periodic acid oxidation

Malonic ester synthesis

Mannich reaction

Markó–Lam deoxygenation

Markovnikov's rule, Markownikoff rule, Markownikow rule

Martinet dioxindole synthesis

McDougall monoprotection

McFadyen–Stevens reaction

McMurry reaction

Meerwein arylation

Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction

Meisenheimer rearrangement

Meissenheimer complex

Menshutkin reaction

Metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement

Mesylation

Merckwald asymmetric synthesis

Methylation

Meyer and Hartmann reaction

Meyer reaction

Meyer synthesis

Meyer–Schuster rearrangement

Michael addition

Michael addition, Michael system

Michael condensation

Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction

Mignonac reaction

Milas hydroxylation of olefins

Minisci reaction

Mitsunobu reaction

Molisch's test

Mukaiyama aldol addition

Mukaiyama reaction

Myers' asymmetric alkylation

N

Nametkin rearrangement

Nazarov cyclization reaction

Neber rearrangement

Nef reaction

Negishi coupling

Negishi zipper reaction

Nenitzescu indole synthesis

Nenitzescu reductive acylation

Nicholas reaction

Niementowski quinazoline synthesis

Niementowski quinoline synthesis

Nierenstein reaction

NIH shift

Ninhydrin test

Nitroaldol reaction

Nitrone-olefin 3+2 cycloaddition

Normant reagents

Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation

Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction

Nucleophilic acyl substitution

O

Ohira–Bestmann reaction

Olah reagent

Olefin metathesis

Oppenauer oxidation

Ostromyslenskii reaction, Ostromisslenskii reaction

Oxidative decarboxylation

Oxo synthesis

Oxy-Cope rearrangement

Oxymercuration

Oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones

Ozonolysis

P

Paal–Knorr pyrrole synthesis

Paal–Knorr synthesis

Paneth technique

Passerini reaction

Paternò–Büchi reaction

Pauson–Khand reaction

Payne rearrangement

Pechmann condensation

Pechmann pyrazole synthesis

Pellizzari reaction

Pelouze synthesis

Peptide synthesis

Perkin alicyclic synthesis

Perkin reaction

Perkin rearrangement

Perkow reaction

Petasis reaction

Petasis reagent

Peterson olefination

Peterson reaction

Petrenko-Kritschenko piperidone synthesis

Pfau–Plattner azulene synthesis

Pfitzinger reaction

Pfitzner–Moffatt oxidation

Photosynthesis

Piancatelli rearrangement

Pictet–Gams isoquinoline synthesis

Pictet–Hubert reaction

Pictet–Spengler tetrahydroisoquinoline synthesis

Pictet–Spengler reaction

Piloty–Robinson pyrrole synthesis

Pinacol coupling reaction

Pinacol rearrangement

Pinner amidine synthesis

Pinner method for ortho esters

Pinner reaction

Pinner triazine synthesis

Pinnick oxidation

Piria reaction

Pitzer strain

Polonovski reaction

Pomeranz–Fritsch reaction

Ponzio reaction

Prato reaction

Prelog strain

Prevost reaction

Prileschajew reaction

Prilezhaev reaction

Prins reaction

Prinzbach synthesis

Protecting group

Pschorr reaction

Pummerer rearrangement

Purdie methylation, Irvine–Purdie methylation

Q

Quelet reaction

R

Ramberg–Bäcklund reaction

Raney nickel

Rap–Stoermer condensation

Raschig phenol process

Rauhut–Currier reaction

Racemization

Reductive amination

Reductive dehalogenation of halo ketones

Reed reaction

Reformatskii reaction

Reilly–Hickinbottom rearrangement

Reimer–Tiemann reaction

Reissert indole synthesis

Reissert reaction, Reissert compound

Reppe synthesis

Retropinacol rearrangement

Rieche formylation

Riemschneider thiocarbamate synthesis

Riley oxidations

Rothemund synthesis

Ring closing metathesis

Ring opening metathesis

Ritter reaction

Robinson annulation

Robinson–Gabriel synthesis

Robinson Schopf reaction

Rosenmund reaction

Rosenmund reduction

Rosenmund–von Braun synthesis

Rothemund reaction

Rupe rearrangement

Rubottom oxidation

Ruff–Fenton degradation

Ruzicka large-ring synthesis

S

Sakurai reaction

Salol reaction

Sandheimer

Sandmeyer diphenylurea isatin synthesis

Sandmeyer isonitrosoacetanilide isatin synthesis

Sandmeyer reaction

Sanger reagent

Saponification

Sarett oxidation

Saytzeff rule, Saytzeff's Rule

Schiemann reaction

Schiff reaction

Schiff test

Schlenk equilibrium

Schlosser modification

Schlosser variant

Schmidlin ketene synthesis

Schmidt degradation

Schmidt reaction

Scholl reaction

Schorigin Shorygin reaction, Shorygin reaction, Wanklyn reaction

Schotten–Baumann reaction

Seliwanoff's test

Semidine rearrangement

Semmler–Wolff reaction

Seyferth–Gilbert homologation

Shapiro reaction

Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation

Sharpless epoxidation

Sharpless oxyamination or aminohydroxylation

Shenck ene reaction

Sigmatropic reaction

Simmons–Smith reaction

Simonini reaction

Simonis chromone cyclization

Simons process

Skraup chinolin synthesis

Skraup reaction

Smiles rearrangement

S_NAr nucleophilic aromatic substitution

SN1

SN2

SNi

Solvolysis

Sommelet reaction

Sonn–Müller method

Sonogashira coupling

Sørensen formol titration

Staedel–Rugheimer pyrazine synthesis

Staudinger reaction

Steglich esterification

Stephen aldehyde synthesis

Stetter reaction

Stevens rearrangement

Stieglitz rearrangement

Stille coupling

Stobbe condensation

Stollé synthesis

Stork acylation

Stork enamine alkylation

Strecker amino acid synthesis

Strecker degradation

Strecker sulfite alkylation

Strecker synthesis

Suzuki coupling

Swain equation

Swarts reaction

Swern oxidation

T

Tamao oxidation

Tafel rearrangement

Takai olefination

Tebbe olefination

ter Meer reaction

Thiele reaction

Thiol-yne reaction

Thorpe reaction

Tiemann rearrangement

Tiffeneau ring enlargement reaction

Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement

Tischtschenko reaction

Tishchenko reaction, Tishchenko–Claisen reaction

Tollens reagent

Transfer hydrogenation

Trapp mixture

Transesterification

Traube purine synthesis

Truce–Smiles rearrangement

Tscherniac–Einhorn reaction

Tschitschibabin reaction

Tschugajeff reaction

Twitchell process

Tyrer sulfonation process

U

Ugi reaction

Ullmann reaction

Upjohn dihydroxylation

Urech cyanohydrin method

Urech hydantoin synthesis

V

Van Slyke determination

Varrentrapp reaction

Vilsmeier reaction

Vilsmeier–Haack reaction

Voight amination

Volhard–Erdmann cyclization

von Braun amide degradation

von Braun reaction

von Richter cinnoline synthesis

von Richter reaction

W

Wacker–Tsuji oxidation

Wagner-Jauregg reaction

Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement

Waits–Scheffer epoxidation

Walden inversion

Wallach rearrangement

Weerman degradation

Weinreb ketone synthesis

Wenker ring closure

Wenker synthesis

Wessely–Moser rearrangement

Westphalen–Lettré rearrangement

Wharton reaction

Whiting reaction

Wichterle reaction

Widman–Stoermer synthesis

Wilkinson catalyst

Willgerodt rearrangement

Willgerodt–Kindler reaction

Williamson ether synthesis

Winstein reaction

Wittig reaction

Wittig rearrangement

Wittig–Horner reaction

Wohl degradation

Wohl–Aue reaction

Wohler synthesis

Wohl–Ziegler reaction

Wolffenstein–Böters reaction

Wolff rearrangement

Wolff–Kishner reduction

Woodward cis-hydroxylation

Woodward–Hoffmann rule

Wulff–Dötz reaction

Wurtz coupling, Wurtz reaction

Wurtz–Fittig reaction

Y

Yamada–Okamoto purine synthesis

Yamaguchi esterification

Z

Zeisel determination

Zerevitinov determination, Zerewitinoff determination

Ziegler condensation

Ziegler method

Zimmermann reaction

Zincke disulfide cleavage

Zincke nitration

Zincke reaction

Zincke–Suhl reaction

Zinin reduction